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Obama, Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev discuss non-proliferation, Ukraine – White House
U.S. President Barack Obama and Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev discussed nuclear non-proliferation and the conflict in Ukraine at a meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, the White House said in a statement. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine leader mocks Russia’s call for anti-terrorism coalition
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday derided Russia’s call for the creation of an international antiterrorism coalition, saying the Russians inspire terrorism on their own doorstep and back bellicose puppet governments. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine, rebels agree to broaden weapons withdrawal
Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists have agreed to extend a pull-back of weapons in east Ukraine to include tanks and smaller weapons systems, the OSCE’s representative at peace talks, Martin Sajdik, said on Tuesday. …read more Source: Channel...
Kiev opens politically-charged trial of Russian troops
Moscow claims the two – Captain Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Sergeant Aleksander Aleksandrov – are “volunteers”: retired servicemen who joined pro-Russian militias fighting in Ukraine’s separatist east since early last year. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia establishes seaborne lifeline for Syrian allies
The Alexandr Tkachenko, an ageing ferry with a canary-yellow hull, usually carries people across the Kerch Strait, a bustling sea route and the only connection between Russia and Crimea, the peninsula Moscow annexed from Ukraine last year. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia to consider restrictions against Ukrainian airlines
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has given an order to the transportation ministry to consider retaliatory restrictive measures against Ukraine for banning Russian flights, the government spokeswoman Natalia Timakova said on Monday. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch website says it will trigger referendum on EU-Ukraine ties
A Dutch website said on Sunday it had garnered enough signatures to force the Netherlands to hold a non-binding referendum on the EU’s association agreement with Ukraine, in a move meant to signal popular dissatisfaction with Dutch European policy. …read more Source: Channel...
Italy’s Berlusconi says Crimea split from Ukraine was democratic
Four-time Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Sunday the Crimean people had made a democratic choice to split from Ukraine and hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin as the world’s greatest political leader. …read more Source: Channel...
Netherlands to repatriate more MH17 bodies
The Dutch government said it would repatriate more remains of victims from last year’s MH17 air crash over Ukraine, as it prepared to publish a report into the cause. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia says will retaliate after Ukraine bans its airlines – Interfax
Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said on Friday that Russia would be forced to take retaliatory measures after Ukraine banned Russian airlines, the Interfax news agency reported. …read more Source: Channel...
